Thursday 18 February 2010

new york....the best place on earth...



forget pastis, the coffee shop and jane, after 5 days of eating eggs benedict my fat stomach and my wallet can certify this is the best eggs in ny...(definitely in east village)

http://www.cafeorlin.com



and for real time 'hidden spot' fun, go inside the street cafe and ask the person on the door if you can go down to the bar...it's a real good fellas moment...fill up on mohito's if you dare...

http://www.esquinanyc.com



the 'best' in ny is allways a heated topic...the best burger ive eaten...maybe fanellis or maybe the meridian....pizza..?...definitely here...even tho' it's a but touristy...saddle up and go for a pizza and a calzone...mmmmm

lombardi's

the loft nyc...

so i'm back at my desk listening to holy ghost drifting off to sunday night when i managed to finally get to the musical event of the year...david mancuso's 40th anniversary of the loft. There's too much to say about the evening...i got there at 6 which felt late...the pure love of music and dance was actually quite exhausting as you were really at the mercy of the party...like the excitement you got as a kid at christmas, but to be in a room of people who were all there for a single purpose, to know you were sharing something never to be repeated that formed part of music as we know it today was priceless...and thanks to my dancing partners hen,vicki and lara and clare we made the night an exhausting celebration...here's some highlights but i can only urge to to get there if you are ever lucky enough to get invited...thankyou simon and david...

getting the coals lit...

I Will Come Back (Classixx Acapulco Nights Version)

turning it up...



fanning the fire...



keeping the flames lapping...



the end of night...

Thursday 4 February 2010

LSD for lunch...



from crooky...

fight...!



from gladwell's 'what the dog saw' on the subject of genius and early blooming, put forward in regards to conceptual (picasso) v's experimental (cezanne) creativity...which basically refers the the fact that some people take a while to find their place and that it's no less a genius to have worked hard to find it...anyway read more about Galenson and his research into creativity here...

this is from picasso...

"I can hardly understand the the importance given to the word research,"

"In my opinion, to search means nothing in painting. To find is the thing."


"The several manners i have used in my art must not be considered as an evolution or as steps toward an unknown ideal of painting...i have never made trials or experiments."


cezanne (allthough seemingly was far too angry by the sound of things to comment most of the time, being busy throwing his paintings out the window or slashing them to pieces...said...

"I seek in painting."

read this today 01

Like getting a letter in the mail that tells you finally what to do. Written in a language you can never understand.

from stg

Monday 1 February 2010

now i never...



so i'm sure we've heard and got a wee bit sick of this tune and to those hoarders out there it always still kicks remembering you had to shell out about £150+ for it...it's a lesser known fact those pesky sisters covered it from capanni's orig version...i rather enjoy it's laid back rawness...and you could even go and see what he thinks passes for a decent bit of grub....